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To: jim black who wrote (23212)	9/9/2002 4:34:34 AM
From: Maurice Winn	Respond to of 74559

Jim, Taupo's a biggie! Caldera of grandest proportions. Due any day. Pumice type goes bang really, really fast. Not like a boring old Pahoehoe magma river fountaining type. 10 km high with umpty cubic kilometres... Mqurice

To: jim black who wrote (23212)	9/9/2002 9:56:46 AM
From: pezz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

<< a resident of Los Angeles is more likely to die from a Pacific tsunami resulting from a 100 meter rock from the sky than from the squirming about of the San Andreas Fault? >> I gotta question this jim as a resident of Santa Monica for 30 years I can tell ya that I have lived through several " squirmings " and many others haven't....Yet no one has died of any tsunami.

To: jim black who wrote (23212)	9/10/2002 2:37:00 AM
From: Agamemnon	Respond to of 74559

Here's an even more interesting book I browsed not too long ago: Catastrophe: An Investigation into the Origins of the Modern World David Keys <his theory> From the Publisher It was a catastrophe without precedent in recorded history: for months on end, starting in A.D. 535, a strange, dusky haze robbed much of the earth of normal sunlight. Crops failed in Asia and the Middle East as global weather patterns radically altered. Bubonic plague, exploding out of Africa, wiped out entire populations in Europe. Flood and drought brought ancient cultures to the brink of collapse. In a matter of decades, the old order died and a new world--essentially the modern world as we know it today--began to emerge. Catastrophe is a catchy title; An amazon search on Catastrophe brought back a load including something about an LA basin volcanic cataclysym.